Autonomous Vehicle Triage Engineer (C++), Ship Real Fixes to a Production Self-Driving Stack

<p>𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖++ 𝗳𝗶𝘅 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳.</p><p>You will investigate real autonomous vehicle (AV) issues from on-road drives and simulation, find the root cause in a production autonomy codebase, and submit the pull request (PR) that closes it. $50 to $68 per hour, onsite in Palo Alto.</p><p><br></p><p>𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗡𝗬</p><p>Pave Talent is hiring on behalf of our client, a well-established mobility technology company building automated driving and vehicle software with the backing of a global automotive leader. The team is growing, and this role is being added to expand it, not to backfill.</p><p><br></p><p>𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲</p><p>- Engineers who have triaged AV issues and got frustrated handing bugs off instead of fixing them</p><p>- People who can read a drive log, a sensor stream, and a C++ call stack with equal comfort</p><p>- Methodical investigators who can work a problem independently, then explain it clearly to the team that owns it</p><p>- Anyone who wants hands-on time inside perception, planning, and controls code, not just the dashboards around it</p><p>If you triage without writing code, or you write software but not in C++, this is not your role.</p><p><br></p><p>𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬</p><p>This is a rare two-in-one seat: half detective, half software engineer. You will sit between Vehicle Operations, Simulation Operations, and the core engineering teams (perception, planning, controls, and infrastructure), so you see how the whole self-driving platform fits together and work directly with the engineers who build it. It is a 6-month W2 contract with a possibility of conversion, onsite Monday through Friday.</p><p><br></p><p>𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗗𝗢</p><p>- Dig through on-road and simulation data (logs, video, sensor data, and metadata) to find, categorize, and prioritize AV issues</p><p>- Match on-road events to simulation scenarios so issues can be reproduced, regression tested, and covered going forward</p><p>- Decide whether a failure lives in the simulation environment and tooling or in the AV stack itself, then route it to the right owner</p><p>- Trace root causes through a large C++ autonomy codebase across perception, planning, and controls modules</p><p>- Write targeted C++ fixes and submit PRs to the production autonomy repository following team contribution standards</p><p>- Give and take code review feedback that keeps the stack stable</p><p>- Keep triage categorization and prioritization consistent so the whole team trusts the queue</p><p><br></p><p>𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦</p><p>𝗥𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱:</p><p>- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) field</p><p>- 2+ years triaging autonomous vehicle issues in on-road or simulation environments</p><p>- Hands-on C++ development in a production environment, including navigating a large codebase and submitting PRs</p><p>- A strong data analysis background (5+ years in data science or a related technical field is the target; exceptional recent STEM graduates with real C++ depth will be considered)</p><p>- Comfortable working through logs, sensor data, and video to isolate a root cause</p><p>- Authorized to work in the US without sponsorship; W2 only, no corp-to-corp (C2C)</p><p>- Local to the Bay Area and able to be onsite in Palo Alto five days a week</p><p>𝗕𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀:</p><p>- Master's degree in a related field</p><p>- Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines or GitHub Actions</p><p>- Machine learning (ML) knowledge</p><p><br></p><p>𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗦</p><p>𝗣𝗮𝘆: $50 to $68 per hour, based on experience</p><p>𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁: 6-month W2 contract, with a possibility of conversion</p><p>𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀: Benefits available through the W2 contract</p><p>𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲: Monday through Friday, standard business hours, 40 hours per week, 100% onsite in Palo Alto</p><p>𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Full-time and exclusive; outside concurrent employment is not permitted on this contract</p><p>𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: Typically one onsite interview in Palo Alto, about 1 to 2 hours</p><p><br></p><p>Interested? Apply via LinkedIn and we'll be in touch. Confidential search; your application is fully private.</p><p><br></p><p>𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 | 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱</p>

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